I am infinitely awed by human bodies including my own. I revel and delight in the full range of embodied human experience. Now, in my late fifties, post-menopausal, I am experiencing another common embodied human experience, I have stage four squamous cell cancer in my body. This embodied human experience, for me, is also powerful, amazing and fascinating.

I stand rooted here on the earth and offer my gratitude.I turn to the East and offer gratitude for the air I breathe. I turn to the South and offer gratitude for the fire of my spirit.I turn to the West and offer gratitude for river, lake, stream, and ocean.I turn to the North and offer gratitude for stone, tree, and bone.I touch the earth and offer gratitude for this land I call home.I reach towards the sky and offer gratitude for sun and stars.I place my hand on my heart and breathe deep, offering gratitude for all that I am and all that I haveand for the many blessings of my life.

Thank you.

You are enough.

Our updated Gratitude Ritual Kit is available for youhere.And, our Winter Magic class has begun and is free too!

I spent some time with the new Three Cauldrons layout that is included in the ritual kit and my results were so perfect. I DO need freedom, hearth-tending, and making sacred/blessing as the core components of keeping my cauldrons tended. I actually laughed aloud when I saw the Wand show up in my “Contribution” cauldron.

The Three Cauldrons are those of Vitality, Connection, and Contribution.

I’ve always felt the steady rhythm of beads moving through your fingers comforting. They introduce a regularity, a heartbeat which calms my racing mind. From Catholic Rosary beads as a child or in later years rounds of mala beads provided this route yet neither fitted as they weren’t of my tradition. While I am only vaguely familiar with traditional Celtic prayer beads – the Paidirinean, I was drawn to create Celtic Soul Craft Prayer Beads.